[PATCH v2] block: wrong return value

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Thu Oct 23 2014 - 12:04:50 EST


while compiling integer err was showing as a set but unused variable.
elevator_init_fn can be either cfq_init_queue or deadline_init_queue
or noop_init_queue.
all three of these functions are returning -ENOMEM if they fail to
allocate the queue.
so we should actually be returning the error code rather than
returning 0 always.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

change in v2: added elevator_put

block/elevator.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 24c28b6..1267c2b 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static void elevator_release(struct kobject *kobj)
int elevator_init(struct request_queue *q, char *name)
{
struct elevator_type *e = NULL;
- int err;
+ int err = 0;

/*
* q->sysfs_lock must be held to provide mutual exclusion between
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ int elevator_init(struct request_queue *q, char *name)
}

err = e->ops.elevator_init_fn(q, e);
- return 0;
+ if (err)
+ elevator_put(e);
+ return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(elevator_init);

--
1.8.1.2

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